Samir Alkhouri, Jacob Hoer, Baylor Akhavan, Kathi Pauli, and Aftab Merchant (all Medicine) presented "Enhancing Early Medical Student Inclusion and Well-Being Through a Peer-Led Learning Community Orientation" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Baylor Akhavan, Sierra Snow, Samir Alkhouri, and Kathi Pauli (all Medicine) presented "Academic Expectation Stress and Burnout Among Medical Students: Investigating the Protective Role of Learning Communities" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Isabelle Avenido, Emma Sevoian, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine) presented "Enhancing the Medical Student Experience through Learning Communities: What We Learned from Year 2 of Implementation" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Michael Hixon, Kathi Pauli, Ann Diggins, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Clerkship Connections: Using Reflective Debrief Luncheons to Foster Community and Support Student Growth." Attendees explored the design and evolution of clerkship debrief…

Isabelle Avenido, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine), along with individuals from Heersink School of Medicine, held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Engaging Student Leadership in Learning Communities: Building from Scratch or Leveling Up: Practical Models,…

Kavita Batra, Joshua Khorsandi, and Michael Dagovetz (Medicine) published a study, "The association between COVID-19 vaccination status, knowledge, and attitudes among pre-service life science teachers in South Africa," in the Medicine journal. This was a collaborative effort from South Africa, Italy, and Spain. The study emphasizes the pressing…

Kathi Pauli (Medicine), director of learning communities and manager of well-being and integrative medicine, was nominated by Dr. Aftab Merchant and Ann Diggins and has received the Susan Shultz Award for Professional Staff at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) National Meeting. This award recognizes outstanding professional staff…

Acute Care Surgery Fellows Alex Chen, Alex Rowan, Chris Demme and Chris Gonzalez (all Medicine) successfully passed the American Board of Surgery's Surgical Critical Care Certifying Exam to become board-certified in critical care.

Angela Herrera, Rubaab Wahid, Jasmin Kumar, and Sunny Zhang, along with Amy Stone (all Medicine) received the Louise E. Arnold Excellence in Research or Innovation Poster Session Award with a score of 86/90 for their poster titled "How Group Closeness Shapes the Relationship Between Personality and Engagement in Medical School Learning Communities…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk 2023 Collaborators titled, “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023” in…

Dr. Allison McNickle (Medicine) participated in the "Hot Topics in Pediatric Trauma: Best Practices and Review of the Literature" Panel at the 2025 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. Her segment, Thinking BIG — Putting Pediatric Brain Injury Guidelines into Practice, reviewed management strategies for mild…

Henry Krasner and co-authors, Dr. Sukanta Maitra (Orthopedic Surgery) and Dr. Allison McNickle (Trauma Surgery) published the article, "A comprehensive analysis of traumatic atlanto-occipital and atlanto-axial dislocations: A case series from a level one trauma center," in Trauma Case Reports. This series reviewed the prehospital care, concurrent…